Dis/Orientation Days Workshop and Action Series Starts Today!

[VIPIRG Communications and Outreach]

Hello VIPIRG Community Supporters!

This year VIPIRG is coordinating a new back-to-campus and community event called Dis/Orientation Days.  The project is a series of workshops, film nights, open houses, tours between September 11 and 26th 2013 on campus, and a guide to social justice events off-campus culminating in the Solidarity Campus March Friday September 20th!

A collaboration between campus and community groups, coordinated by the Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group (VIPIRG), Dis/Orientation Days aims to:

• provide opportunities for students and the campus community to recognise how difference and power create discrimination and oppression in relationships on personal, university, and community levels;
  
• build solidarity between advocacy and other social and environmental justice organising groups on campus
• connect students and the campus community with progressive action projects in the greater community.

Community members are invited to attend workshops and events and share their experience and insight into our common causes.  The majority of events are free or by donation/pay what you can.  Bus tickets are also available- check with event hosts.  VIPIRG and collaborating groups are invested in making Dis/Orientation Days a safer space and accessible event- please let us know how we can help you get the most out of our events. 

We recognize that our work takes place on unceded Coast and Strait Salish territories of the Lekwungen and WSÁNEC peoples.

Volunteers are needed to help make bandanas, host events, promote Dis/O by tabling and handing out flyers, and organise our events including the Solidarity Campus March, Decolonisation Field Trip to PKOLS and others. 

Join us for Dis/Orientation Volunteer meetings every Wednesday 6-7pm in the VIPRG Resource Room B122 in the Student Union Building at UVic

A brief summary of events is listed below.  Download a full pdf of our Events Guide and find quick-reference calendars at http://www.vipirg.ca/disorientation

Keep up to date through:  vipirg.ca/disorientation   -  facebook.com/VIPIRG  -  @VIPIRG #disorientuvic on twitter

To learn more and get involved as a campus, community group, or individual, contact Jen:  disorient...@vipirg.ca 250.721.7285

Monday September 2

 11am-2pm Victoria Labour Council Labour Day Picnic

Irving Park at the corner of Menzies and Michigan Streets

 

Saturday September 7

 1-4pm Gathering on the Green

Off Campus- Pandora Green, Pandora Avenue between Quadra and Vancouver Streets

 

Sunday September 8

 2pm Community Toolshed Invasive Species Pull

Off Campus- at Meegan (Beacon Hill), meet beside the Petting Zoo before going up the hill.

 

Thursday September 4 - Sunday September 15

 

2013 Festival of Anarchy

Off Campus- Workshops, Concerts, and Community Projects across Victoria on Songhees territory

victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca/festival-of-anarchy

 

Wednesday September 11

 

2pm Exploring Ecosystems at UVic Campus with Katie Lovely

Meet at fountain in the quad outside the McPherson Library at UVic, rain or shine!

 

4-7pm NSU Feast

First Peoples House, UVic

6-7pm Dis/Orientation Days Volunteer Meeting

VIPIRG Resource Room B122 Student Union Building UVic

 

7-9pm Organising Against Poverty Panel

Harry Hickman Building, Room 110

 

Thursday September 12

 

10am-2pm Native Students Union Open House

Room b023, Student Union Building

 

2pm-5pm UVic Pride Open House

UVic Pride Centre, Room b010, Student Union Building

 

5- 8pmThe UVic Environment Round Table 4.0 (UVERT)

Vertigo Lounge, Student Union Building

 

Friday, September 13

7-9pm All In/digenous Writers Night

Off Campus- Little Fernwood, Hall 1923 Fernwood Road

 

Saturday September 14, 2013

11am-6pm Victoria Anarchist Bookfair

Off Campus- Fernwood Community Centre, 1240 Gladstone Street

 

8pm-1am Untamed Cabaret for WildCoast

Felicita's Pub, Student Union Building, UVic

$12 adv/student, $15 door, 19+  wheelchair accessible

 

Sunday September 15

 11am-5pm Victoria Anarchist Bookfair

Off Campus- Fernwood Community Centre, 1240 Gladstone Avenue

 

Monday September 16

 4-6pm Disorient UVic Bandana Screen printing Workshop

Upper Lounge, Student Union Building

 5-7pm UVic Pride Volunteer Orientation and Info Night

UVic Pride Centre, Room B010, Student Union Building

6-9pm DIS/Orientation Movie Night

Upper Lounge, Student Union Building

6pm Taking the Fall and Rising

7:45pm Street Politics 101

 

5-8pm Positive Space Network Workshop

Sedgewick Building, Room C168, Pre-registration Required

 

Tuesday September 17

 

3:15-6:30pm Decolonisation Field Trip to PKOLS

Meet outside Cinecenta entrance to the Student Union Building at UVic,

Transportation provided- thanks to the Social Coast Action Bus!

7pm & 9:15pm Gold Fever Film Screenings and Q&A’s

Cinecenta, Student Union Building, UVic

Wednesday September 18

12-5pm SOCC Open House

Students of Colour Collective office, Room b020, Student Union Building, UVic

 6-7pm DIS/Orientation Days Volunteer Meeting

VIPIRG Resource Room, B122, Student Union Building, UVic

 6:30-8:30pm Autism on Campus

Human & Social Development Building, Room A240, UVic

 7-9pm,  Building Labour Solidarity Locally Workshop

Upper Lounge, Student Union Building, UVic

 

Thursday September 19

 3:15-6pm Social Change tour of Downtown

Meet outside Cinecenta entrance to the Student Union Building, UVic

Travel downtown by public bus- bus tickets available.

 4-6pm Community Acupuncture Workshop with Heart and Hands

Upper Lounge, Student Union Building, UVic

 7-9pm Solidarity Campus Sign-Making Social

Upper Lounge, Student Union Building, UVic

 

Friday September 20

 12-4pm Women’s Centre Open House

Women’s Centre, Room B107, Student Union Building, UVic

 Solidarity Campus March

12:30 meet outside David Strong Building, UVic

2:30 Regroup outside David Strong Building, UVic to continue March

Monday September 30

7pm-9pm Queer Movie Monday

UVic Pride Centre, Room b010, Student Union Building, UVic